Pedro Perez, the acting superintendent of the NY State Police, resigned yesterday amid an investigation into his intervening role in the domestic violence case of former Paterson aide David Johnson. He took over as chief just a week ago after Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt, also implicated in the scandal, stepped down. Perez claims he’s leaving not because he acted wrongly, but because he lacks support from the administration and his fellow officers. But Joseph Barrett, the president of the New York State Police Investigators Association, which represents detectives, says, "The position that the State Police find themselves in now is the result of the actions of a few high-ranking officers in management positions, and Acting Superintendent Perez was one of them." more ›

Some banks have been hit hard by the economy, and some threatened by Obama, but only one has been broken into by a wasted Rip Torn. It was first reported over the weekend that 78-year-old actor Torn was arrested for breaking into a Salisbury, Connecticut bank with a loaded revolver after closing hours, and jailed on $100,000 bail. It's now been revealed that Torn had no intention of robbing the bank—in fact, he was so plastered that he thought the back window to the bank, which he smashed open, was his front door. more ›

Adam Goldstein, aka DJ AM, had just filmed an intervention series for MTV, called "Gone Too Far," before he died of a suspected drug overdose. After debating airing the 8 episodes the network has decided in favor of it, "apparently counting on the star’s own suspected overdose on Aug. 28 to underscore the ravages of addiction more than it emphasizes the ghoulish exploitation factor of the whole enterprise." Stay classy, Viacom. more ›